Make sure you catch all these new reviews from February 2025! We’re so proud to be able to showcase positive feedback, and we hope they will encourage you to explore all our titles. Congratulations to all our reviewed authors and thank you to those who read them. You can read all the full reviews through the links below, as well as purchase copies on our website.
Review Highlights
Title: The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism: A Thematic Approach by Virginia L. Lewis
Review by: Gábor Tamás Molnár, Institute for Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
“Virginia Lewis’s monograph offers clear and accurate explications of the works of an important Hungarian author. The thematic approach enables the critic to contextualize these works in a manner relatable to non-Hungarian scholars and readers. However, Hungarian readers will also benefit from Lewis’s attentive interpretation of Móricz’s vision and narrative craft.”
Featured in: Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 102, Issue 4 (2024)
Link: https://doi.org/10.1353/see.00066
Title: Filología e Ilustración en España: El discurso sobre la decadencia en las letras españolas del siglo XVIII by Miguel Ángel Perdomo-Batista
Review by: Mario Pedrazuela Fuentes, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
“el libro que aquí analizamos, más que un estudio acerca de la creación del discurso filológico en España consiste en una recopilación y análisis de una serie de obras de ilustrados españoles del siglo xviii que profundizaron en las causas de todo tipo, entre ellas también las lingüísticas y literarias, de la decadencia en la que se encontraba España en aquellos momentos. Para el autor son estos textos los que establecen las características que tiene la filología española dieciochesca, llegando a la conclusión de que estos discursos sobre la decadencia es el hecho diferencial de la filología Española”
Featured in: Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Volume 22, Issue 2 (2024), pp. 285-90
Link: https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/indices/Indice_R236367.pdf
Title: Writing the Child: Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature by Susanne Baackmann
Review by: Julia K. Gruber
“Baackmann successfully “achieved knowledge” and “made space” for what has been her parents’ generations’ secrets by filling that blank space with solid analyses of several fictional works.”
Featured in: Gegenswartsliteratur, De Gruyter, Volume 23 (2024), pp. 295-96
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111501888/html
Title: Changes in Argument Structure: The Transitivizing Reaction Object Construction by Tamara Bouso-Rivas
Review by: Eva Zehentner, University of Zurich
“a must-read for researchers interested in careful implementations of (diachronic) Construction Grammar for specific case studies, and a prime example of how to conduct corpus studies on somewhat elusive patterns in an as bottom-up, exploratory way as possible. The study clearly achieves its goal of providing a meticulous and convincing application of by now rather standard concepts in Construction Grammar to a particular, to-date unexplored phenomenon.”
Featured in: English Language & Linguistics, Cambridge UP, First View, (2025), pp. 1-7
Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067432400042X
Title: Probabilistic variability in clausal verb complementation in World Englishes by Raquel P. Romasanta
Review by: Sven Leuckert, Technische Universität Dresden
“This monograph is impressive in several ways. The author showcases in-depth knowledge in a variety of fields, including, of course, World Englishes, but also variationist sociolinguistics, language history and language typology. The analysis is complex and illustrates the author’s skills in statistics, with multiple statistical methods used to approach the data from different angles.”
Featured in: English Language and Linguistics, Cambridge UP, Volume 29, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 418-22
